tucker was the leading brand just and you really see such practical common sense ideas. i first read it in 1969 and reread it five or six times over the years. it really defines much of how i operate. >> host: also in 1994 you announced your contract for this book which immediately became controversial because of the advance. we have just a little clip from that time. at like to see how those events what do with the lens of a dozen years of history. >> our attorney had reviewed a list of of proposal for an advance into books, the product was a real book with a real publisher and it offered us financial independence for the first time in our lives. since house members and senators have been accepting it as is in writing books about critical, and i thought we had done the right thing. for example, no one had questioned then a senator gore's advance or his right to offer earth and the balance while many republicans to challenge his ideas myself included none have challenges in,. one news report indicated 29 senators have written books while in office and other reports indic